Boy Chessmen (1960)

C/Us and M/S of a chess board and two people playing a game; a third man is standing and watching by the game table in a large garden. M/S as we see a group of boys in coloured and checkered costumes standing on a large chessboard on the grass near the game table; the third man seems to be directing them (he could be playwright John Wiles who produced this play). Commentator says the game “has been ingeniously adapted as part of a fantasy production of King Arthur by the Turners Court School for underprivileged boys, at Benson in Oxfordshire“. C/Us of the group of boys as they move on the board, dressed in chessmen costumes of medieval tabards and wearing eye-masks, hats, horses heads and castles made of papier-mâché. C/U of the feet of one boy as he moves to another square; he is wearing medieval-style shoes. High angle M/S of the two men playing their game of chess as the third man stands by. Commentator says “This is the climax of the play where... the King recaptures this final battle with his